Autobiography of Red

"Raising a camera to one's face has effects
no one can calculate in advance." [135]

"It sort of rustles as it moves because it's full of boiling chunks of solid rock." [109]

"Herakles was watching.
Do you hear the rain? he said. Rain? Geryon adjusted the earphones. The sound
was hot as a color inside." [108]

"It was the year he began to wonder about the noise that colors make. Roses came
roaring across the garden at him.
He lay on his bed at night listening to the silver light of stars crashing against
the window screen. Most
of those he interviewed for the science project had to admit they did not hear
the cries of the roses
being burned alive in the noonday sun. Like horses, Geryone would say helpfully,
like horses in war. No, they shook their heads.
Why is grass called blades? he asked them. Isn't it because of the clicking?
They stared at him." [84]

"The word each blew towards him and came apart on the wind. Geryon had always
had this trouble: a word like each,
when he stared at it, would disassemble itself into a separate letters and go.
A space for its meaning remained there but blank.
The letters themselves could be found hung on branches or furniture in the area.
What does each mean?" [26]

"Homer's epithets are a fixed diction with which Homer fastens every substance in the world to its aptest attribute and holds them in place for epic consumption. There is a passion in it but what kind passion? 'Consumption is not a passion for substances but a passion for the code,' says Baudrillard." [4]

Autobiography of Red (1998)
Ann Carson